At Fakuma 2021, ENGEL demonstrated what the “circular economy” in the plastics industry can look like – By processing label offcuts from the in-mould labelling process. This is turned into a form of regranulate. An ENGEL victory 460/80 injection moulding machine was used to produce tapered closures in an 8-cavity mould.
Mining information from data
Schwertberg/Austria – October 2021
As the degree of digitalisation increases in injection moulding processes, so does the volume of data. The data contains a great deal of information, but this is often not recognisable at first glance. With the new performance.boost analytics service, ENGEL helps its customers to mine information from the available data in order to use the information for process and production optimisation as well as troubleshooting. Read more
ENGEL is expanding its range of smart assistance systems for Fakuma 2021. The new iQ motion control enables ENGEL viper series linear robots to make a safe early start combined with fully automatically optimized track planning. This means double benefits for users, through time savings in the teach-in and shorter production cycles.
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